Compensation-data processing

• US 20020188542A1
• Filed: 04/11/2002
• Published: 12/12/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 04/13/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kenexa Technology NY Inc (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kenexa Technology NY Inc (International Business Machines Corporation)
• Inventors: Linn, Andrew I., Zhang, Yong, Plunkett, Gregory K., Coleman, William H.
• Application Number:
  US10/121,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20020188542A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 40/06 Asset management; Financial planning or analysis

Abstract

A computer program product resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable and computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to access a compensation-data storage device, retrieve compensation data from the compensation-data storage device, the compensation data including information regarding job title and pay of individuals of a first business entity associated with the compensation-data storage device, and transmit the retrieved compensation data toward a processing system via a wide-area communications network, the processing system being associated with a second business entity that is different from the first business entity, where the computer-executable instructions are configured to cause the computer to at least one of access, retrieve, and attempt to transmit the compensation data automatically.

Claims

1. A computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium and comprising computer-readable and computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to:

access a compensation-data storage device;

retrieve compensation data from the compensation-data storage device, the compensation data including information regarding job title and pay of individuals of a first business entity associated with the compensation-data storage device; and

transmit the retrieved compensation data toward a processing system via a wide-area communications network, the processing system being associated with a second business entity that is different from the first business entity;

wherein the computer-executable instructions are configured to cause the computer to at least one of access, retrieve, and attempt to transmit the compensation data automatically.

2. The computer program product of claim 1 further comprising mapping instructions for causing the computer to map the retrieved compensation data from a first model associated with the compensation-data storage device of the first business entity to a second model associated with the processing system of the second business entity.

3. The computer program product of claim 2 wherein the mapping instructions are configured to cause the computer to map first job titles of the first model to second job titles of the second model.

4. The computer program product of claim 2 wherein the mapping instructions are configured to cause the computer to map first compensation components of the first model to second compensation components of the second model.

5. The computer program product of claim 1 wherein the computer-executable instructions are configured to cause the computer to access, retrieve, and attempt to transmit the compensation data automatically.

6. The computer program product of claim 5 wherein the event is at least one of expiration of a counter and occurrence of a predetermined time.

7. The computer program product of claim 5 wherein the computer-executable instructions are configured to cause the computer to at least one of access, retrieve, and attempt to transmit the compensation data in response to a manual command.

8. The computer program product of claim 5 wherein the manual command is initiated at one of the first and the second business entities.

9. A computer program product residing on a computer-readable medium and comprising computer-readable and computer-executable instructions for causing a computer to:

automatically request, via a telecommunications network, compensation data to be sent via the telecommunications network from a compensation-data storage device;

gather and analyze the compensation data including determining statistics related to the compensation data; and

store the analyzed compensation data in a data-exchange storage device.

10. The computer program product of claim 9 further comprising instructions for causing the computer to transmit the analyzed data via the telecommunications network toward a recipient device.

11. The computer program product of claim 10 further comprising instructions for causing the computer to transmit instructions for causing the recipient device to arrange the analyzed data in a graphical report for viewing by a user of the recipient device.

12. The computer program product of claim 10 wherein the instructions for causing the computer to gather and analyze comprise instructions for causing the computer to map the analyzed data from a data-exchange format associated with the data-exchange storage device to a second format associated with the recipient device.

13. The computer program product of claim 9 wherein the instructions for causing the computer to gather and analyze comprise instructions for causing the computer to map the compensation data from a data-exchange format associated with the data-exchange storage device to a second format associated with a recipient device.

14. The computer program product of claim 9 wherein the instructions for causing the computer to gather and analyze comprise instructions for causing the computer to aggregate the compensation data associated with multiple business entities.

15. The computer program product of claim 9 further comprising instructions for causing the computer to store compensation data, associated with each of multiple business entities, in the data-exchange storage device.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the obtaining includes translating the first compensation data from a first compensation-data model into the second compensation data having the predetermined standard compensation-data model.

18. The method of claim 17 wherein the obtaining includes transmitting the first compensation data via the wide-area network.

19. The method of claim 17 wherein the obtaining includes transmitting the second compensation data via the wide-area network.

20. The method of claim 17 wherein the translating includes calling a software routine from a computer associated with the first compensation data.

21. The method of claim 20 wherein the translating includes downloading the software routine, via the wide-area network, to the computer associated with the first compensation data.

22. The method of claim 17 further comprising delivering third compensation data indicative of the first compensation data to the recipient device, the third compensation data being in accordance with a recipient-device compensation-data model.

23. The method of claim 16 wherein information indicative of the first compensation data is transmitted via the wide-area network in response to at least one of a predetermined amount of time passing since a prior such transmission, the passing of a predetermined time, and actuation of a computer associated with the first compensation data.

24. The method of claim 16 wherein the display indicia are of a protocol readable by a variety of platforms.

25. The method of claim 24 wherein the display indicia are URL-based.

16. A method of processing compensation data from a plurality of business entities, the method comprising:

automatically initiating collection of first compensation data from a plurality of storage devices associated with the plurality of business entities;

obtaining, via a wide-area telecommunications network, second compensation data indicative of the collected first compensation data, the second compensation data being in accordance with a predetermined standard compensation-data model, the model including salary and job title information;

analyzing the second compensation data to determine statistics related to the collected data; and

transmitting, via the packet-switched network, display indicia to a second plurality of business entities to display the analyzed data using display apparatus.